A53704:670
An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches.…
An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schism / by John Owen.An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schisme / by John Owen.
London: printed by J. Richardson for Nath. Ponder, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hence there were two sorts of Churches in those days (if not three) in Separation more or less from the Apostate Church of the Unbelieving Jews, which yet was not finally taken away.
(1.) The Church of Jerusalem and those Churches of Judea which were of the same Mind and Communion with them. These continued in the Observance of all the Law, and of the Services of the Temple, being allowed them by the Apostles.
(1.) The Church of Hierusalem and those Churches of Judea which were of the same Mind and Communion with them. These continued in the Observance of all the Law, and of the Services of the Temple, being allowed them by the Apostles.
(2.) Those of the Jews, who lived in the Nations, and observed all the Rites of the Law, which were not confined unto the Land of Canaan. And
(3.) The Churches of the Gentiles which observed none of these things, forbearing only their Liberty in one or two Instances, not to give the other Offence. Some Differences and Disputes happened sometimes about these things and the Practise of them, whereon Peter himself fell into a Mistake,